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metos
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God of Shadows
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posted October 27, 2006 03:52 PM |
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Poll Question:
Favourite Heroes 3 faction poll
An updated post of Lucifer.....
Tell me the town and the reasons that why you choosed it + the best creature, the worst creature, the best hero, the worst hero, advantages and disadvantages of the town overall.
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Personally it's dungeon for me. Because of it's creatures' strenght and useful buildings.
Best creature: Blackie Ya' know 1 of them + armageddon = sticky. Other than that they are fast and strong.
Worst creature: Unupgraded harpy for me. It's useless that it has no "no retaliation" ability and a bit low speed.
Best hero: I don't remember the name, but the one who starts with resurrection
Worst hero: Jeddite after WoG. I hate the demolish town script and always turn it off.
Advantages: No really bad creatures, Mana Vortex and Battle Academy is always handy, along with artifact merchant.
Disadvantages: Medusae has a few shots, Minos are slow and immune to all spells ability to Blackies also blocks blessings.
Now say yours
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wog_edn
Promising
The Nothingness
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posted October 27, 2006 04:38 PM |
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I voted Stronghold, because I think it is an overall weak town. Ogres are not special and behemot is weak for a level 7 creature. Goblins are not strong either and the town only have mage guild level 3.
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metos
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God of Shadows
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posted October 27, 2006 04:46 PM |
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You voted stronghold ....... Beacause it is weak
I only see one C nflux one dungen
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Shauku83
Promising
Famous Hero
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posted October 27, 2006 05:54 PM |
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Voted Inferno, because it is such a hard town to play with. After years and years of playing, you really need the challenge. It is my favourite as nowadays i chooce them 50% of the time.
Best Creature would be Efreet Sultans. I love their speed and they look great. Also can be used with Armageddon.
Worst Creature are Imps. The fact you get plenty of them isn't helping, except for the fact that they make nice Demons.
As you guessed, Marius is my best Hero choice. I attempt to get as many Demons as possible by changing Imps and Magogs into demons -> must use destructive spells (fire ball) to finish your own stacks. Advanced Armorer is very good and also makes that powerstack of yours THE powerstack of the game.
I'd point out that Pyre is awesome too.
Worst Hero..hmm, Axsis is definately among the worst ones. What is worse than Mysticism speciality?
Advantages. Demoniacs make ok/good Heroes. Demon farming is really effective when pulled out right. Overall fast creature line-up and 2 no retaliation creatures.
Disadvantages. Weak and expensive creatures - a very bad combination. Only one shooter at level 2 (who is no Marksman either). No flyers until level 6 -> tough early game before Efreets. Weak level 5, which must be compensated trough its ability. Oh, did I mention it is very expensive.
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russ
Promising
Supreme Hero
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posted October 27, 2006 06:13 PM |
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Edited by russ at 18:14, 27 Oct 2006.
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Opps, I misread the thread name and voted conflux. It isn't my favorite, but it is the strongest.
My favorite is Tower. I liked shooter armies ever since King's Bounty where shooters were insanely overpowered. Being able to walk 1-2 steps (OR EVEN FLY ANYWHERE!!!) with your shooters before shooting was awesome. HOMM3 Tower has the most practical and the strongest army lineup in the game. The only disadvantages that put them behind the other towns are its heroes, its building order, its price and its speed. If you manage to overcome all of those obstacles, the win is yours.
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HoMMage
Hired Hero
Unundead
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posted October 27, 2006 07:00 PM |
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Edited by HoMMage at 19:25, 27 Oct 2006.
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Voted Dungeon, they provide such interesting battles. They may not be the most efficient town considering building order and dwelling prices/prerequisites, but they make up for that with solid to great 2nd to 5th level units, and when there's a Red Dragon dwelling on the adventure map, you'll soon be unstoppable thanks to the PoS. Plus, Overlords are brilliant heroes.
And Minotaur Kings are the coolest creatures in the whole damn game.
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Oh yeah, the best/worst and stuff.
Best creature: Minotaur Kings. Best lvl 5 stats and IMO best lvl 5 overall (though I understand the votes in favor of the MG's). Very durable - you'll lose your Scorpicores much sooner, so they'll quickly be able to tackle enemy tanks, including NQs, DKs and even AB's, with few or no casualties.
Worst creature: Infernal Trogs.
Best hero: Gunnar (Logistics) or Dace (Minotaurs)
Worst hero: Geon (Eagle Eye)
Advantages: Underground (usually), no movement penalty in entire underworld, 3 fliers 2 shooters, PoS, Mana vortex, Overlords rule and Warlocks aren't too shabby either, good speed and balanced stats overall, no Slowing/Cursing/Whatevering Black Dragons.
Disadvantages: Very demanding on all resources to build up town, no Dragons first week, sub-par lvl 1 and 6 creature, will have movement penalty at start of game if map has no underworld, costly units, no Hasting/Blessing/Whatevering Black Dragons.
For the record, I've never done BD's + Armageddon, but it sure seems fun
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vhilhu
Famous Hero
We are NOT schysophren
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posted October 27, 2006 07:31 PM |
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FORTRESS.
early game neutral clearing is very good (i pity the fool who doesnt get wyverns on week 1).
late game is quite fine (MGorgons. they are devastating against lvl 7 and especially lvl 8(it becomes even more important in wog where there are lots of lvl8 creatures)). in late game you will probably have a very wide variety of spells(many conquered towns) and as fortress is VERY spell dependent(hydra teleport, mass haste is great because the strength of fortress is rather slow melee units), that affects late game a lot.
best creature: Mgorgon. you knew it already.
worst creature: Lizardmen. lizardmen have their use, AI always shoots them while they have great defence for a lvl 2, so they keep enemy archers busy. other than that, they just waste a slot in your army.
best hero: Tazar. with the Armorer special.
worst hero: Styg. sorcery special - i rarely use direct damage spells anyway. and the sorcery bonus should be 4 times bigger to be of any value.
advantage: good early map clearing due to cheap and quick-to-build wyverns. Mgorgons vs lvl 7 and 8. 2-hex moat. under siege, fortress is the best.
disadvantage: attacking towns is hard(dragonflies/wyverns/lizardmen have low stats) before you get expert teleport spell for hydras. lizardmen are awful lvl 2. wyverns, while cheap, are weaker than all other lvl 6.
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Two little Gnoll boys sitting in the sun;
One got frizzled up and then there was one.
One little Gnoll boy left all alone;
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tenzor
Adventuring Hero
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posted October 27, 2006 07:36 PM |
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Conflux is far best town, I think it should be removed from the poll
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vhilhu
Famous Hero
We are NOT schysophren
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posted October 27, 2006 07:59 PM |
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agree. and actually castle and necro too maybe? the 6 others are about equal.
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Two little Gnoll boys sitting in the sun;
One got frizzled up and then there was one.
One little Gnoll boy left all alone;
He went and hung himself and then there were none.
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HoMMage
Hired Hero
Unundead
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posted October 28, 2006 11:33 AM |
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Quote:
agree. and actually castle and necro too maybe? the 6 others are about equal.
Necro I can see, but I don't think Castle is unbalancedly powerful. They have excellent offensive creatures but are rather slow (save for the AA's obviously), have weak archers and mediocre heroes.
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metos
Known Hero
God of Shadows
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posted October 28, 2006 02:11 PM |
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Yes, they ARE powerful. Look at archangels and marksmen!
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wog_edn
Promising
The Nothingness
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posted October 28, 2006 02:28 PM |
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If I am not wrong the pikeman/harberdier is the strongest level 1 creature too, and cavalier is pretty good. Griffin is ok creature too
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HoMMage
Hired Hero
Unundead
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posted October 28, 2006 11:55 PM |
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Yes, they ARE powerful. Look at archangels and marksmen!
That's right, and I said the creatures were excellent, and I also said that Castle has its flaws in other departments. Marksmen are hard to keep in high numbers and will have lost a lot of their usefulness after a month.
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Centaur is the strongest, but pikeman is pretty tough either. The ONE way to defeat castle is inferno. You could make a terror by reanimating dead imps as Pit Lords And devils are tough.
Devils tough... it's almost ridiculous how they are worse than Archangels in every way, except that they have NER which is arguably more useful than resurrecting allies (and they're slightly cheaper after expanding the game).
Besides, you don't reanimate Pit Lords, you reanimate Demons which you will need a LOT of to make any difference.
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yasmiel
Supreme Hero
Former Chessmaster
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posted October 29, 2006 02:50 AM |
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Voted Stronghold..
Main reason would be nostalgic one... It was the first faction with which i finished heroes 1, and the overall barbarians somehow catch my attention in many games...
As for units... it has its UPs and DOWNs..
Goblins are mediocre lv1 unit with decent lv1 speed.
Having 10 HP lv2 unit requires carefull use.
Orc damage output could be a bit better for this level.
Ogres Have nice HP but are slow 
Thunderbirds are IMHO one of most important stronghold troops (along AB)
Cyclopses... they rarely see the action in my games..
Ancients.... the most cost efective level 7 unit which balances out pretty much all lower level weaknesses.
Having to pick between Behemoths and cyclopses (in most games) is my main stronghold objection though.
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phoebeduviels
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Que?
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posted November 03, 2006 06:17 AM |
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Voted Conflux, mainly because elementalist is the best magic heroes you can get!
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Aculias
Responsible
Undefeatable Hero
Pretty Boy Angel Sacraficer
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posted November 03, 2006 06:36 AM |
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Are you kidding me Yasmiel.
Cyclops are one of my favorites but getting Behemoths week 1 is a priority or you can basically kiss your butt goodbye in a real game.
You dont need cyclops to win & you need to make a choice of getting Ancient Behemoths or CYclops.
I would strongly suggest AB & Rush for the attack when you got the upper hand.
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yasmiel
Supreme Hero
Former Chessmaster
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posted November 04, 2006 02:28 AM |
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Edited by yasmiel at 02:30, 04 Nov 2006.
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i think you misunderstood me 
I surely DONT pick cyclopses... but you are forced to pick between them (which sucks).. even tho youll pick behemots of course
that "in most cases" in brackets was for having the choice, not for picking the cyclopses
PS. im pretty sure i clicked on stronghold vote, yet conflux got it -.-
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metos
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God of Shadows
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posted November 04, 2006 09:54 AM |
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You can get behemoths in 3rd day, angels in 5th day and create all creature dwellings of fortress in 7-9 days.
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TnT_Addict
Honorable
Supreme Hero
Beautiful Liar
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posted November 04, 2006 10:25 AM |
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Voted fortress, it's my favourite plus the best town there is in the game.
I haven't been beaten in gamespy while playing fortress 1v1 {not teams} (on every other map but jebus) for about 3 months. Although it was pretty hard to start right on that not native land templates they slowed me down a bit, but the big point is that you can't bring me down when I'm with fortress. 
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VokialBG
Honorable
Legendary Hero
First in line
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posted November 04, 2006 12:44 PM |
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Necropolis!
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